The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-23

And it took all he had
To fee lawyers; now he has nd.
Chicago Tribune.
NEW HAVEN possesses four ex Governors. who
are assessed for taxes on the following
amounts: English s567 800: Harrison S25 600:
Bigelow, $25. 900; 1ngersoll. $50. 600. They are
assessed for political purposes on the same basis,
of course.
MRS MAcKAY, wife of the Nevada mining
millionaire, will soon leave Paris to make her
home in San Francisco She will occupy the
palatial mansion Of Mrs. Charles Croker on Mob
Hill, and will give series Of unsurpassed enter
tainnents
DURING his last visit to Cincinnati, General
Grant went ont to Batavia. o.. to visit his
s.Uncle Sammy" Mr. Samuel Simpson, who has
l Just died in his ninety first year. The General
liked his uncle because of his fondness for
horses and for breaking colts.
I THE Rev. DR.. Joseph Parker, of London, does
considerable editorial work, and likes to use the
editorial I'VE" A few Sundays ago he an.
nounced in hoarse voice. from his pulpit, that
I'VE have cold to-day, and on that account we
will not preach as long as usual"
Mr. JAMES HAMBLET, the manager of the
time service of the Western Union Telegraph
Company, has waving gray hair mixed with
black. wears spectacles, and is nervous. quick
moving gentleman He loves his clock as much
as If it were the apple of his eye.
Dr. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. in his de-
scripton of his last visit to England, speaks of
| seeing skeleton that measured eight feet, and
adds: ''His hand was the only one 1 took either
| in England in Scotland. which had not a
| warm grasp and hearty welcome in it."
sABoUT two years ago." says the Sumterville
| Fla Times, 'Mr E. H. Stannard bought four
i acres of land and planted an acre or more in
strawb berries, and from this crop alone he has
| allied enough to support his family comfortably
| and spend six months of the year at the North"
w. II. MALLocK's misfortune in being black
balled at the Athen@um reminds the wicked
London Truth Of the same gentleman's first meet
| ing with Carlyle. 81 cannot express how much
feel delighted and honored at having met you,
| Mr. Carlyle" quoth Mr.. Mallock, and Carlyle re-
Piled "Eh well, 1 hope may not meet you
! again"
THE Hon. George Bancroft, eighty-six years
| old an in vigorous health, says people in
| jured great deal more by eating too much than
by taking extra glass of wine at dinner. He
| said in louisville. the other day, that he had
| not previously visited that city since the times
| Of Henry Clay. and had never since then been
in that part of the South or seen the Mississippi
| river.
SOME of Yales professors are fairly we'll off.
Among those who pay taxes on more than
$4,000 are the following: Simeon E. Baldwin,
Y,
Sc. 395: President Timothy Dwight, $54 $780,
Otnnle c. Marsh $40, 500; Arthur NJ Wheeler.
$37, $780, James NJ. Hoppin, $36 &c. ex-Presldent
| Noah Porter. $50. 100: George E. Day, $28, 40l;
| William D. Whitney, $27, $50; James D. Dana.
$o3 800; Daniel C. Eaton, $2l, 500; George P.
Fisher. $40 500.
How blind politician great novelist may be
is seen in a private letter written by Hawthorne
in 1863 and for the first time printed. After
+uo vaars If warfare Hawthorne was still will.
ing to send message to the rebels that "their
best hope lies in the honor of the peace Demo
Gratis of the North, whom they have heretofore
scorned, and by amaleamation with whom | re-
ally think that the old Union might be restored
and slavery prolonged for another hundred years,
with new bnlwarks."
THE late Bishop Lee OF Delaware spent mos,
of his early life at Norwich. Conn. 1t is related
that when he was studying law there, one Of his
close friends was the late John T. Adams
mr.. Adams subsequently married sister Of
Bishop Lee, who was the mother of Mrs. David
A. Wes.) Mr.. Adams was studying for the
= ministry but that calling did not prove any
more attractive to him than the legal profession
proved to Mr. Lee. They therefore exchanged
books, and lawyer Lee eventually became
Bishop Lee.
New YORK Tribune: There had long
been popular impression to the effec
that Carter Harrison considers hinsel
bigger man than George Washington. Th
will be strengthened by the Chicagoan's actio,
relative to his farewell address. He intends t,
give it publicity that the Father of His Country
did not Immediately secure for his. TIC this enc
he Is sending copy of il, postage prepaid. gratis
to the Mayor Of every city of 1000 population IL
tho United States Doubtless it will be reat
when Washington is forgotten; not before
Mrs. J. ELLEN FOSTER, of Iowa, is announces
to be in failing health, the result Of overwork
For more than dozen vacationlsss years ssh
has been one of the most conspicuous and sue
cessful leaders in the temperance cause, and he
eloquent voice has been heard and her organic
ing hand felt in almost every State and Terri
tory. She has also been the legal counsel of tn
Woman's Christian Temperance Union of tn
Nation. These labors she has taken upon hel
self for love OF the cause, in addition to her ex
tended law practice and her home and famil